web design blog

I was just in the situation where I had moved a website over to a completely new design and had moved the website from an old Joomla installation into a new Concrete5 one. This was a product / brochure website rather than an e-commerce website and all of the product listings were changing as well.  [...]

This is an inbuilt feature of Concrete5 so we’re not really exploring any radical new way of doing anything but I thought I’d post on how to add an address for your website users when they sign up and then maybe look at the plus and minus points of doing it the Conrete5 way. Log [...]

There are a number of built-in pages in Concrete5 which are styled automatically for the front-end with minimal stylisations such as the login page and the registration page. Luckily it is very easy to customise these to match your theme and fit in with your site architecture and other site elements. The login page is [...]

I was asked by someone how to integrate the JQuery Superfish menu into Concrete5 so here goes. You really have 2 options:  if you don’t want to get your hands dirty then you can install the Superfish Dropdown Menu add-on from the C5 marketplace http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/superfish/ , this is an easily configurable block that you just add [...]

Here I am posting again on the Concrete5 CMS. When using Concrete5 your main navigation from the site comes from the auto-nav block.  You just slot it into a content area and it lists all the pages in your website (that you’ve allowed to be listed) in a hierarchical nested unordered list). By default the [...]

I love using Concrete5 as a CMS as it is just so easy to work with.  The task of extending or customising a website and it’s functionality is actually a pleasure rather than a really daunting task as with some other CMS. Recently I had a requirement to build an accordion style main-navigation for a new website I’m building [...]

Just thought I’d post a quick and easy Concrete5 tip.  We have the standard guestbook block installed on a website but wanted a single entry to show up on each page of the website in a particular area but at random – so that when the website browser goes to a new page on the site they are [...]